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      <p>Two of the historic arguments for the <a href="../api_reference/C/repelect.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;rep_elect()</a> method have been moved
from the interface to separate methods in order to make them available
within the new replication manager framework.</p>
      <p>The <span class="bold"><strong>priority</strong></span> parameter should now be explicitly set using the
<a href="../api_reference/C/reppriority.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;rep_set_priority()</a> method.  To upgrade existing replication applications
to the Berkeley DB 4.5 <a href="../api_reference/C/repelect.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;rep_elect()</a> interface, it may be simplest to
insert a call to <a href="../api_reference/C/reppriority.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;rep_set_priority()</a> immediately before the
existing call to <a href="../api_reference/C/repelect.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;rep_elect()</a>.  Alternatively, it may make more
sense to add a single call to <a href="../api_reference/C/reppriority.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;rep_set_priority()</a> during database
environment configuration.</p>
      <p>The <span class="bold"><strong>timeout</strong></span> parameter should now be explicitly set using the
<a href="../api_reference/C/repset_timeout.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;rep_set_timeout()</a> method.  To upgrade existing replication applications
to the Berkeley DB 4.5 <a href="../api_reference/C/repelect.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;rep_elect()</a> interface, it may be simplest to
insert a call to <a href="../api_reference/C/repset_timeout.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;rep_set_timeout()</a> immediately before the existing
call to <a href="../api_reference/C/repelect.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;rep_elect()</a>.  Alternatively, it may make more sense to add
a single call to <a href="../api_reference/C/repset_timeout.html" class="olink">DB_ENV-&gt;rep_set_timeout()</a> during database environment
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